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WEDNESDAY. JULY 4,1934
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TWINKLES
Much of the joy U taken out of riding by the pres
ent price of gaaoline.
If this week’s bloodshed is the reeult, we hope Adolf
Hitler ret* to hold no more conversations with his idol,
Benito Mussolini.
m ; **<%- . ; , ,
-ftiefcory of the pest in Cleveland county reveal* that
in t*un-off election for a single office, the candidate who
jjuts the county to the expense of the second primary is
doomed to defeat. •
MARIE IS REAL NEWg
News is a strange commodity, and no editor ever
knows what every item is worth. “Roosevelt Sails,” “Hit
let Kills," “Henry Ford Succumbs”—exciting stories for
fiTuit pages. But the greatest story of the week is about
an actress who has neither dimpled knees nor divorces,
an .oldish woman who isn’t pretty—the very beloved
Msirie Dressier. Our wager is that more people are read
ing about her illneas, and that more people are more deep
ly concerned about her, than are reading about or arc
concerned about the slaughter of Germans by Hitler's
forces.
CAROLINA VACATIONS
) To the advertisements depicting cool mountains or
fin* beaches that North Carolina Chambers of Commerce
put out in the laudable hope of attracting more tourists
to this State ought to be added the fact that North Caro
linians theroaelvaaiake their vacations at home.
Many of us expore the East, and admire the tall
toners of Manhattan or the wonders of the Exposition,
but when weeeek a vacation, we don’t go far from home,
Wtf go to the mountains—to Asheville, Blowing Rock.
Hendersonville. Brevard, Waynesville, Linville, Lake
Lure; or we go to Wrightsville.
We’re probably unique in that. Name another state,
with such varied scenery and climates that its own resi
dents can take their vacations happily and cooly at home.
OUR COLLEGE PRESIDENT
Cleveland county is furnishing for the first time a
president of a major college in the elevation this w eek of
Col. J. W. Harrelson as administrating dean of the North
Carolina Stsjte College. Col. Harrelson is a native of
Lawndale and his mother lives in Shelby on Lee street.
< After being graduated from State College, Col. Har
relson taught in that institution for a dumber of years.
Under Max Gardner's administration he was appointed
chairman of the state board of conservation and devel
opment. returning last year to the StateXollege faculty.
Col. Harrelson has a striking personality, knows how
to handle college students and is intensely interested in
the welfare of North Carolina—its agriculture, manu- j
factoring, natural resources, etc. He is intimately ac- |
ouainted with every phase of the state's life and is just
the! man to train our youth to carry on for a greater
•ta^e.
JULV 4
Day after tomorrow, we'll celebrate «ith singed
fingers and bursting ear drums the day our forefathers
declared the colonies independent from Great Britain.
July 4 properly stands as the greateat national holiday,
although the hypercritical mind might wonder today,
now that England and Europe are defaulting their debts 1
and harassing our export industries, just how really in- I
dependent we can ever be of foreign nations.
Be that as it may, we’ve got more independence j
than most; the curious fact is that we are celebrating
the wrong date.
■The Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia,
ratified-the Declaration of Independence on July 2. and j
signature’s of representatives were affixed to it fiom j
week to week. The final name was added about the la'- j
ter |>art of August, a year later.
The date July 4 was apparently selected by Parso.i
Weems, a pamphleteer of that era. who wrote patriot
ically if inaccurately about affairs of the young nation
It was an exercise of his imagination that the Liberty
Bell rang on July 4. and the good people of Philadelphia
were called out to hear the great news that the docu
raent had been signed. i
Not that; the date matters. February 22 isn't j
George Washington's birthday either, nor is December
25 alleged to be accurate.
PLAN FOR A FARM VILLAGE
If we were a farmer—and we’re not a farmer, U
I cause we haven’t enough good sense and patience to run
a farm—we'd often feel a bit silly and possibly indignant ;
at the way everybody under the sun these da'-s is telling
ia how to run our business, our homes and our villages.
We’d reaent a lot of it, but still, with so many peo
ple making suggestions, we’d sifr them out in the belief
that a few good ones would be bound to occur.
For instance, there’s W. T. Couch, at the University,
who has a plan for a farm village. It’s a Utopian plan
that seems too idealistic ever to be achieved, but it ought
to make interesting reading and discussion for farm
folks. Here's part of it:
The typical farm village should include 100 to 300
houses of the best modern design, specially adapted for
the hot Southern Summers tnd the sometimes very cold
Winters, with sll the conveniences of plumbing and elec
tricity snd the luxuries of built-in bookcases and radios.
The school house should be built to serve as s training
centre in the handicrafts as well as in reading, writing,
snd arithmetic, end above all it should, be designed for
flexibility in use. There should be s community centre
with a library, reading rooms, a movie hall, rooms for
dances snd -games, indoor and outdoor swimming polos,
and tenuil and hasketball courts and other playgrounds.
The poeioffice and* places of business should all be de
signed for heauty as will as for utility. Each village
would have to have buildings providing space for vary
much the same functions as are now carried on in the or
dinary village, but new life could he lent to these func
tions by giving them more attractive surroundings and
by establishing the village on such a basis that thg dom
inance of a competitive money economy would be impos
sible. It would be necessary to give the title for all the
business property in the village to the village itself. Of
fice and store space would then be allotted on a rental
basis subject to the applicant’s ability to pass an exam
ination based on high standards of service. In case of
competition for space, the allotment would go to the one
who parsed the best examination and not to the one who
offered to pay the highest rent. Rents would be standard
ized. and devoted to maintenance and improvement. For
those who did not win in competition for business space,
there could always be provided a home and land for farm
ing either in the same village or in a new village. All of
the professions would be licensed as the best now ar?,
and payment would be in the form of a salary, provision
of a home, rent free, and a claim on a portion of the prod
ucts of the village.
Private enterprise would be permitted to go as far
as it pleased in making the best crops possible and in im
proving land, in developing new and improved varieties
of farm products, or in perfecting professional service,
but no opportunity would be given for the financial in
terest of any one individual or group of individuals to
dominate the life of the village. Investments, for instance,
might be limited to government bonds and these could
be kept at reasonable levels by income and inheritance
taxes.
Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE
NEWSY NEWS FROM FLAT ROCK
mannle cryme*, a resp'ctable
bootlegger of our littla town, had
the miasfortune to lose his wife by
disappearance last week, but she
returned back home frlday after a
pleasant viasit to her first cuzalns
in jeorfy
spurge jhonson. the ex-convict
who was pardoned by cur govvernor
six weeks ago. ts talking of running
for the leggls-lature. but he can't
raise the entrants fee the gewer- [
nor mought lean it to him, and j
he will rtt? or foam him about it
at once, he made a varry nice con !
' let for 2 yr
the egg-laying contest which was
scheduled for the month of august
ha:, been postponed mdetfinue.
mr: dommie neckrr the poultry
grower of the outskirts of town.1
says / f could not get ready to do
any laying until early in the fall !
so it rr« put off onner count of
her. she tinned last year after
laying 28 eggs per hen
hoLsum moore, cne of our candy- j
dates for mayer, is talking of going
mio the pet rabbit blzness on a
large scale, he is asking the gov
veimeiu to send him 100 rabbits
(rom the rabbit hatcheries In wash- :
ingion, d. c. hfc win get acme aid
from the f e. r. a. to help build
the fence, he stands a poor chance |
of ever being eleckted to anything
by the people.
the farmers of our town who ts |
farming by remote control have all
got their rental checka and turned
them over to henry ford and gen.
motors and the standard oil. they
are counting on the govverment
thinking up some other plan to give
them some more money for nothing
pretty soon. »t beats working for
a livvtng 10 to l.
. . j
miaa tennte veeve smith, our af- ;
flcient scholl principle, has rote
seweral peace* of poetry here of,
late one of her poems has 07 ■
■ ersea in it and every verse but 2
nme* perfectly ahe could not think :
of no word to rime with apper- i
plexy," which her amt dinah dide [
with, and ^hereafter,*’ where here |
aint diiiah went, it is called- a!
uiemoiiam to dear aunt ilinah
tyOtl 1 if she can ral n$. he will 1
have it put in the munty aeats
newspaper, they won't p*-tnt po*‘r* !
about loved ones without money.
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THE NEW OftDEft
flat reck. ». C. julie 4, 1934.
deer mr. eddttor: —
p!e*e allow me to put the follow
eri.ig notis In yore valuable paper:
not!*, everboddy!
a big meeting will be hall in front
of the city hall and averbody who
is big enough to vote and old
enough to fight la hereby arthor
l»d to be on hands at same, the
purpose of the said meeting Is to
oggernize the green britches, this
oggantaation la to be like the fas
sists and nassists in gennany and
italy. all come, fine speakers, no
musick — nothing but bujiest to
arms, comradds'
yore corry spondent. mr mike
Clark, rfd. has been informed to
be on hands to preside over this
meeting-he mought be asked to
make a speech, judge lem damskl
and hon. sunnov vitski. both of up
north, 'possibly new york>, will
make the other 2 speeches
the green britches will be run like
the brown shim of germanny and
the black shirts of europe. and will
possibly have seme of these furrtn
repper-sentativas on the ground to
give us the tow-down on how to
run the govvment thru the shirt
plan.
Our committee wanted to use the
shirt emblem, but had to resort to
britches, as all of the collors bhve
benn took up in the difirant furrtn
countries, we will call our boys of
the brown britches—"the gab-zists"
—and will fight big copper-rations
and line up with i. w. w. and the
d. f. dubs of the world.
after a man become ; a member of
this oggamzaiton. he wont be al
lowed to wear nothing but green
britche*. and if he la ever ketched
without same, he will be black
balled for 3 weeks and kept out of
the meetings our motto will be—
"all for one and one for all", this
old addage was used by the greeks
in grease SO centuries ago
come, folks, the time is npe we
who work with the sweat of our
brows must join hands, or the cop
per rations will own us boddy and
Mk. we will fly the blue eagle and
live up to the code, but code p* no
: atlr. we membert of the green
britctif should run the govrermen!
and lake over all capitol.
yores i nili- *
mike C'!»ik. rid.
resident agent.
Bank Deposits .
Climb A Billion
WASHINGTON, July 1—A billion
dollar Increase in the public's bank
depoeits since the end of February
*aa claimed today by government
] banking authorities
This four-month gain was be
Uieved to have been one of the larg
est in American banking history
It does not include a sharp rise
in government deposits or deposits
of banks m one another which may
bring the gain In total bank de
posit* in this period to nearly *3,
000.000,000.
In other words, the *1,000.000.
gam in the public s deposits reflect
“real" accumulated savings of
American individuals and corpora
tions.
Official figures on the huge gain
will not be available for several
months when federal and state
officials compile figures from the
end of June ealla for condition
(statement*.
Gilbert Moss Dies
|In S. C. Hospital
!Prominent Farmer Succumbs: Wind
Storm Hite Reck Springs;
Personals.
'Special to The Start
ROCK SPRINGS, 8 C.. July 3,— j
Gilbert Moss, 31, a prominent
farmer of the Buffalo community
died suddenly Friday morning at
the City Hospital, Gaffney, S C.
He was recovering from an appen
dix operation and was coming horn
the next day. Heart trouble is be
lieved to have been the cause or
hit death.
He Is survived by his wife, who'
before marriage was Miss Eula Mae
Foster
| George Moore was sick last week.
Misses Patsy and Virgie Jones axe
(also on the sick list,
j Miss Myrtle McSwaln has been
ill for the past week.
Madison Wylie has returned home, j
He has been in the army for three i
years.
j Friends of Mrs, Marne Petite are
■sorry to learn of the death of her
'baby. The child died on the way
| to the Saluda hoapital. Mrs. Petite
i was Miss Marne Wylie before mar
riage.
Mrs. John Davis spent a while
last week at the bedside of her
friend. Mrs. L. C. Cannon of Land
ford, S. C. Mrs. Cannon died Mon
day morning.
| The wind storm which struck this
| section Thursday afternoon did net
do much damage. It blew part of
M. C. Blantons barn down, blew
the top off of u. M. Jones' bam and
blew down a tree in M. S, Mc
Swalns’ yard. No other damage is
known.
Mrs. G. L. Pruitte. Miss Nancy
and Lorene Jones spent last week
end in Shelby.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Jones and
family of Splndale. are spending
this week with the lattert mother
Mrs. Ida Jones.
Little Robert Wright, small son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Wright, has
been sick but Is better now.
Cleveland Has 33
Students At Boone
Special to The Stir.)
BOONE. July 3.—The Appal* -
chian State Teacher* college hex
; the largest enrollment of publ.c
school teachers assembled anywhere
1 in North Carolina in the first suni
| mer school. There are 80S in the
! summer school at Boone and 87 in
| the auxiliary school conducted at
Dodson, this state, making a grand
total of 895 Seventy-one counties
in North Carolina are represented
and 34 counties in other states
Ninety-three colleges and universi
ties are represented in the student
body. Sixty of the students hold
Bachelor’s degrees and two have
Masters degrees These ere here
completing their educational re
quirements for A certificates or lo
prtnct pal's certificates.
During the week of June 25-29
the college will conduct an Institute
of civic relationkhips
The following are members of the
student body enrolled from Cleve
land county.
Lama Blsnton of Shelby; Blala
Blanton of Shelby; Mary Sue Blan
ton of Lattimore. Jennie Blanton of
I Bhelby; Let ha Blanton of Shelby.
Pauline Dedmon of Shelby; Fran
ces Doggett of Shelby; Gilvert Pallr
of King* Mountain; Jennie Godfrev
of Kings Mountain, Helen Graham
of Earl; Frances Graham of Ea’-!;
Sara Harris of Shelby; Ann Ham
rick. Shelby; Ula Head. Kings Moun
*ain; Mr*. Gladys Hopper. Shelby;
Ruby Iron. Shelby. Sarah King.
Grover, Mary Leem. Lawndale.
John!* Moretoead. Shelby. Mrs. D
9- New. Shelbr; Fay Mauney. Kings
Mountain; Lou we Patrick. 8helby.
Mary Fatteraon, Patterson Spring*:
Irene Peeler, Lawndale: Edith Rob
ert#, Shelby; Grace SaraU. Eeil;
Margaret Smith, Slielby Mad<( i
Spurting, Sbelbv; Everett Toms, i
Shelby; Glenard W.trlicls. Lawn
dale; Kale Whitwocih. Wato; Ms* -!i
garet Whitworth. Waco: Thfim-t1 ■
Willis. Fa listen. J,
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Steel Arbitrators .
Here are two members of the steel
labor board set up by President
Roosevelt to settle the strife in
the steel industry which has
threatened a nation-wide strike— |
top, Rear Admiral H. E. Wiley, !
U. S. N., retired, and below, J
James Mullen back, of Chicago,
member of the labor policy board j
of the petroleum n't ministration
hoard. The third member is Chief
Justice Walter F. Stacey of the j
North Caroline supreme court
College Girls
Finest Wives
NEW YORK, July 3.—Campus ro-j
mancea result In the happiest mar
riages in the opinion of Professor
Ernest R. Groves of the Universtty
of North Carolina, expressed here
today before a group of educators
from all over ths country attend
ing a conference on "Education for
Marriage and Family Social Rela
tions" at Teachers’ college, Colum
bia university.
The Carolina professor declared
that it takes intelligence to be a
modern wife, and college training
helps. He said also that the domes
tic Ideals of college people are like
ly to be high, making them Intol
erant of “narrowness, meager fam
ily life and selfishness.’'
Other Carolinians taking part in
the discussions, which will continue
tonight and tomorrow are Catherine
T. Dennis of Woman's college.
Oreensbaro, Ruth Lindquist of
Chapel Hill. Myra De Haven Wood
ruff of State college, Frances F.
Mosley of Greenville,.
Clover Mill Owes
Taxes It Can’t Pay
la Behind With Processing Tax (e
Uncle San and Gees Into
Receivership.
< Yorkville Enquirer)
The Clover Mills company, the
oldest textile mill In that town, was
placed In receivership over ‘he
week end, on application of a stock
holder and with no oppoaitlon from
the corporation.
The receiver Is J. W. Quinn, of
Clover, an experienced, practice!
mill executive.
It has debts totalling $133,000 and
$8,000 with which to pay them.
This action was precipitated, aft
er efforts were atarted a week ago
to avoid It by arrangement with
creditor!, by the United States
coming with an ultimatum that it
be paid $14,000 processing taxes at
once, when the company had on'y
$8,000 cash on hand and no other
quick assets
The government required the pay
ment of $4,000 last Saturday and
an additional $3,000 each following
Saturday, until tha entire $14,000 of
processing taxes was paid.
To Allot Teacher
Funds On Friday
RALEIGH. July 3.—The State
School commission will meet here
fridey to make allotments of money
for operation of public school plants
luring the 1934-38 session
The allotment of teaehers arts
iompleted last -v«ek. *nd the beard
s now turning t*v attention to the -
inancial problems for next year. *
>roy Martin, executive secretary of
he board is expected to return In
iiv office tomerrow alter a trap to
he western part of the slate.
Allotments for plant operation*
ri>t include funds far fuel, lanitors
''«$«& lanltcr supplies transporta
ton and other necessities. , ,
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